On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:21:13 +0100, "Josiah" <josiah@hetero.net>
wrote:
>Hello Mister OldGuard,
>
>Whenever I see your name in the headers I always like to read what
>you have said. It takes me back to when I was a small boy. At the end
>of our street was a wooden bench where old men would congregate.
>Invariably they would have a slightly musty and slightly unwashed odor
>about them and they would regularly spit on the floor in the most
>disgusting way they could manage. Whatever they were talking about,
>and they were always talking, it was always to complain or to put
>other people down. I think they gained some kind of pleasure from
>this, from believing that if each agreed with some statement made by
>another it somehow reinforced that statement's credibility. What I
>think they were missing was that it was all just a load of mumbo-
>jumbo concocted and chewed over by a bunch of irrelevant and
>slightly obnoxious old farts. It's understandable that as men get older
>they get more entrenched in their often misguided beliefs. Certainly
>the men at the end of our street were never going to change anyone's
>world except the one within the confines of that bench.
>
>But what I suppose I noticed most about these old guys was that they
>seemed to have lost all concept of change. We all know that some
>things change for the better and some for the worst and while we
>possess our faculties we generally make a fair distinction between the
>two. But one problem with getting older is that we can lose our
>ability to differentiate. Then, everything is bad, everything is worse
>than it was and nothing today is ever like the good old days. You
>see, what happens to a lot of old men is that they lose their ability to
>THINK logically. As children they only knew what to DO, and as
>they grew into men they learned how to THINK. Sadly, so many
>of them in their advanced years retain only the ability to REMEMBER,
>having lost virtually all capablity to DO or THINK anything.
>That's a little sad, I suppose, they fail to wash themselves properly
>and all kinds of other things. Eventually many develop dementia
>after which their failure in life can lead many to become quite
>dangerous.
>
>Anyway, nice talking to you Mister OldGuard.
>
You as well, Joe Blob.
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